Civil rights

Plaintiffs, two parents and their adult son, occupied two apartments in defendant apartment building. The son is profoundly disabled since birth, a fact of which defendants were aware. His mother also has recognized physical disabilities. While defendants provided multiple reasonable accommodations in view of plaintiff's disabilities during the over two years plaintiffs had lived in the building, defendants refused accommodate plaintiffs' leaving their lease approximately 2 months early. Plaintiffs requested such accommodation based upon their need to move out for a larger space required by the son's therapeutic equipment. Defendants, in addition to refusing to waive or release plaintiffs from the lease, sought additional documentation and sent the matter to collection. The 3rd party collection agency allegedly engaged unfair debt collection practices. Plaintiffs sought statutory penalties under the Unruh Act and the Disabled Persons Act, as well as compensatory damages under FEHA.